Tag: Amityville

• Deliver Us From Evil: The Danger of Possessing Men

  

  As we have repeatedly seen during this project we are calling Tensions in Exorcism Cinema, there appears to be a narrative made popular by the success of The Exorcist (1973). There is a reason we like to say that the 1973 movie is the one that started it all, even though there had been films […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  December 1, 2014

  Critical/Cultural Studies, Film Studies, Gender Studies, Sexuality

  Africa, Amityville, animals, Blackwater Valley Exorcism, Conjuring, Deliver Us from Evil, demonic possession, demons, Eric Bana, evil omens, exorcism, Father Karras, found footage, infection, Iraq, Jerry Bruckheimer, Jesuit, Joel McHale, Jungler, minutia reception, Olivia Munn, Possessed, Ralph Sachie, saints, Scott Derricson, The Devil Inside, The Doors, The Exorcism of Emily Rose, The Exorcist, The Last Exorcism, The Rite, true stories, war

• Amityville II: The Possession and Incest

  

  So…this movie. The Amityville Horror (1979) has had a long lasting cultural impact, spawning a remake in 2005 and numerous sequels, prequels, sidequels, TV references, and more. Based on a true story, and another example of a supernatural occurrence investigated by the Warrens (of The Conjuring fame), the original film focuses on a family where […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  August 4, 2014

  Film Studies, Gender Studies, Sexuality

  Amityville, Amityville Horror, B-movie, Burt Young, camp, Catholic Church, Damiano Damiani, Defeo, demonic possession, demons, Evil Dead, exorcism, exorcist, ghost hunter, Hans Holzer, horror, incest, Italian, James Olson, Lutz, nonfiction, parapsychology, pedophilia, possession, rape, schlock, Vatican II